British and Continental Ceramics

A Copeland & Garrett Late Spodes Felspar porcelain part service, mid 19th century, pattern No. 5230, gilt with a foliate design against a cream ground, comprising sucrier and cover with floral knop, slop bowl, jug, ten teacups, eleven coffee cups, eighteen saucers and two plates, green printed and red painted factory marks to bases (faults).

A set of six Wedgwood limited edition Café Chic Clarice Cliff style coffee cans and saucers, decorated in the Autumn, May Avenue, Blue Firs, Windmill, Summerhouse and Red Tree patterns, boxed with certificates, together with four limited edition The Bizarre World of Clarice Cliff Wedgwood Bradford Exchange plates in the Orange House, Orange Roof Cottage, Blue Lucerne and Farmhouse patterns, boxed with certificates, a Wedgwood Clarice Cliff Limberlost pattern limited production run conical sugar sifter, boxed with certificate, a Biarritz Royal Staffordshire Bizarre Rhodanthe pattern rectangular plate, length 22.7cm, and a Royal Staffordshire Spring Crocus pattern plate, diameter 22.5cm.

A Royal Crown Derby Darley Abbey pattern part service, dated 2009, comprising six dinner plates, diameter 26.5cm, six dessert plates, diameter 21.5cm, six teacups and saucers, teapot and cover, milk jug and sucrier and cover.

A Royal Albert Old Country Roses pattern part service, comprising twelve dinner plates, twelve dessert plates, ten soup plates, three tureens and four covers, two sauce boats and one stand, one oval platter, length 38.5cm, a cake plate, circular serving bowl, seven dessert bowls, teapot and cover, eight teacups and saucers, ten tea plates, milk jug, a sugar bowl and cover, a boxed set of six cake forks and a boxed cake slice, together with a small group of factory seconds in the same pattern, including an oval platter, length 33cm, and a rectangular sandwich tray.

Three Royal Doulton figures, comprising Lydia, HN1908, Rose, HN1368, and Marie, HN1370, a Dresden Chelsea Derby style model of a recumbent deer before bocage, height 15cm, a similar Continental group modelled as a boy and girl before a tree, height 20cm, a Royal Worcester figure Grandmother's Dress, modelled by Doughty, and a mixture of mostly Continental porcelain figures, including a Capodimonte lady wearing a crinoline dress carrying a basket of flowers, height 20cm, a Bing & Grondahl boy holding a flowerpot, model No. 2251, a pair of figures depicting a boy and girl with flowers, two nodding head figures and a Carlton China crested ware model 'I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES' (faults).

A mixed group of mostly Art Deco style pottery, British and Continental, including a Crown Ducal Charlotte Rhead vase in the Granada pattern, height 18cm, a Royal Doulton Gnomes series ware plate, diameter 26.5cm, a Shelley Harmony octagonal bowl and similar hors d'oeuvre dish, two vases, a bowl and a jug by Hancock & Sons, a Pilkington's mottled green glazed plate, diameter 22cm, a Goldscheider model of a bush baby, two Doulton stoneware tobacco jars and covers, two Corona Ware lustre glazed vases, tallest 21cm, a Myott preserve pot and cover with integral spoon rest, a Taylor Tunnicliffe 'Brandy' decanter with basketweave moulded body and plate mounted neck rim and stopper, and an oil lamp painted with animals in the style of those found in the Lascaux caves in France (faults).

A Samson porcelain Meissen style 'Swan Service' plate, 20th century, typically relief moulded and polychrome painted with swans to the centre, flowers to the rim beneath a gilt edge, gilt painted mark to base, diameter 21cm (chip to rim), a Meissen floral painted quatrefoil shaped saucer, length 15cm, a Meissen underglaze blue Onion pattern saucer, diameter 14.3cm, two similar Dresden floral painted saucers with gilt rims, a Berlin porcelain white glazed mug with moulded laurel wreath detail, underglaze blue sceptre mark to base, height 14cm, and a small group of other wares, including a Sitzendorf posy holder modelled as four flower encrusted amphora, height 12cm, a Rudolstadt Volkstedt posy holder in the form of a large egg on the back of a lying putto and a Moore Brothers posy holder with relief cactus flower detail (some faults).

A Royal Dux model of a shepherd, early 20th century, standing wear sheepskin clothing playing pipes, three sheep gathered at his feet, raised on a naturalistic circular base with floral detail, polychrome painted with gilt details, applied pink triangle mark to base with impressed numerals '579', height 43cm.

Four pieces of Royal Worcester, comprising a tusk jug, dated 1904, shape No. 1116, painted and gilt with flowers against a blush ivory ground, height 16.5cm, a pair of floral painted ivory ground dessert plates, dated 1891, shape No. 1416, diameter 21.8cm, and a spherical posy pot relief moulded and painted with forget-me-nots, dated 1876, height 9.5cm, a Locke & Co. Worcester blush ivory flared trumpet vase moulded with acanthus leaves, height 22.5cm, a Worcester posy holder modelled as a bird of prey perched on a white glazed pierced rockwork base, height 28cm, and three Worcester teabowls.

A rare Minton majolica flower holder, dated 1877, modelled by Paul Comolera as a squirrel beside a tree trunk, the mottled blue and brown glazed trunk applied with nuts and leaves which the squirrel is heading towards, the trunk with turquoise glazed interior, impressed marks to base with shape No. 2070, height 28cm (minor chips).

A slipware pottery child's dollhouse set, 20th century, with running and marbled glazes, including thirteen various plates, average diameter 7.8cm, a shallow circular bowl, diameter 7.3cm, a comport, height 4cm, six teacups and two jugs.

A pair of Italian maiolica wet drug pharmaceutical apothecary syrup jars, Deruta, mid 16th century, the tapered bodies with slightly spreading circular feet, both applied with a broad strap handle, the straight spouts painted with a figure of Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy), against a yellow ground framed by a foliate wreath centred with a horizontal scroll inscribed 'Syd Agresta' (a syrup of unripe grapes) and 'Syd Papavero' (a syrup made with poppy seeds), above an 'S.L' monogram, the feet and neck rims outlined in blue, height 24cm, indistinct incised marks to bases (faults). Note: The 'S.L' monogram on each of the jars beneath the inscribed scrolls probably stands for Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy), and likely denotes these particular jars were connected to or commissioned by a monastery dedicated to her. She is depicted on the spout of each jar holding a bowl which contains two eyes, as folklore claims she either removed her eyes herself to deter suitors, as she had consecrated her virginity to God, or had them gouged out by torture. For this reason she is the patron saint of the blind. Provenance: Previously in the collection of Sir Harry Jephcott, 1st Baronet, managing director of Glaxo Laboratories, thence by descent.

A Dutch Delft wet drug jar, early 18th century, the bulbous body with short spout and grooved handle with pointed lower terminal, raised on a short stem and spreading circular foot, painted in blue with a label inscribed 'S De 5 Radic' (Syrup of five roots), surmounted by a pair of peacocks flanking a basket of fruit, the lower part of the painted label centred by a winged mask between fruit garlands, height 25cm. Provenance: Previously in the collection of Sir Harry Jephcott, 1st Baronet, managing director of Glaxo Laboratories, thence by descent.

A rare English Delft, probably London, 'pipe-smoker' wet drug jar, circa 1665, of typical ovoid shape, the ridged handle opposing a short spout, painted in blue with a label inscribed 'S: ACETOSVS SIM' (syrup of vinegar simple), both ends of the label ornamented with a head appearing to smoke a pipe, the lower middle section of the label with a 'green man' mask, raised on a spreading circular foot, height 21.5cm (minor faults). Note: similar 'pipe-smoker' labelled drug jars are illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, 'Dated English Delftware', p.368, pl.1595, and p.372, pl.1612. These are each dated examples. In his book 'Delftware: The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles', Michael Archer illustrates another drug jar with the same label, p.391, pl.K.1. Here Archer notes the heads, which appear to have pipes in their mouths, actually just have long protruding tongues. Provenance: previously in the collection of Sir Harry Jephcott, 1st Baronet, managing director of Glaxo Laboratories, thence by descent.

A set of four Continental faience drug jars with metal covers, French or Italian, probably late 18th/early 19th century, comprising two of wet drug form with spouts and broad strap handles, and two of dry drug form, each inscribed with a label surrounded by polychrome flowers, height 18cm (extensive faults and repairs to each). Provenance: Previously in the collection of Sir Harry Jephcott, 1st Baronet, managing director of Glaxo Laboratories, thence by descent.

A Poole Pottery charger, circa 1999, designed and decorated by Tony Morris, monogrammed, with a large lobster against a dark ground of stylized waves, black printed and painted factory marks to base, diameter 40.8cm, with a box and Richard Dennis Gallery 'Poole Pottery' exhibition booklet and price list. Provenance: purchased by Tony Morris's brother and his wife at the Poole Pottery Exhibition held by Richard Dennis at his gallery in December 1999, thence by descent.

A rare Poole Pottery Sun Face fifteen tile panel low coffee table, circa 1964, painted and designed by Tony Morris, depicting a large sun face and a series of smaller sun faces against a dark ground, held within a wooden frame and raised on four ebonised tapering legs, total dimensions of top panel 79cm by 48.5cm. Provenance: Tony Morris worked at the Poole Pottery from 1963, living in digs near the pottery. In December 1964 he travelled home to New Tredegar in the Welsh valleys on the train, carrying with him this table, and two others of a similar design he had also made, as gifts for his three siblings. The table has remained in the family ever since. A similar example is illustrated by Leslie Hayward and Paul Atterbury, 'Poole Pottery, Carter & Company and their Successors 1873-1998', p.117 and with a detail on the back of the dust jacket. The table illustrated by Hayward and Atterbury was sold by Cottees Auctions Limited in November 2012.

A Royal Worcester reticulated cup and saucer, dated 1885, of double-walled construction, in the style of George Owen, pierced with a honeycomb design heightened with gilt dots at each intersection, glazed in pale turquoise heightened with red and gilt enamelled motifs and reserved with gilt decorated aesthetic landscape panels, detailed within a pale pink ground gilt pattern heightened with red enamel and white and turquoise 'jewels', with bamboo-form handle, green printed, impressed and puce painted marks, diameter of saucer 10.5cm.

A Meissen porcelain pierced cabinet plate, late 19th Century, the cobalt blue ground painted to the centre with a girl and boy in a countryside setting, within a gilt foliate scroll frame, the gilt enriched rim pierced with trellis and foliate panels heightened with blue floral medallions, the rim underside with further gilt detail, crossed swords in underglaze blue to base with impressed numerals, diameter 25.5cm (minor chips).